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François Boucher (artist) French, 1703 - 1770 Venus Consoling Love, 1751 oil on canvas Overall: 107 x 84.8 cm (42 1/8 x 33 3/8 in.) framed: 132.1 x 110.2 x 7.6 cm (52 x 43 3/8 x 3 in.) Chester Dale Collection 1943.7.2 |
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Provenance
Painted for Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour [1721-1764] and installed in the appartement des bains in the château de Bellevue, outside Paris; removed c. 1757; recorded 1764 in the vestibule of the ground floor of the Hôtel d'Evreux, her Parisian residence; by inheritance to her brother, Abel-François Poisson, marquis de Ménars et de Marigny [1727-1781], Château de Ménars, Paris; installed in the gallery of Marigny's residence, rue St. Thomas du Louvre, Paris, by 1777; (his estate sale, at his residence by Basan and Joullain, Paris, 18 March-6 April 1782 [postponed from late February], no. 21); purchased by Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun [1748-1813], Paris and London. Baron Alfred Charles de Rothschild [1842-1918], Halton House, near Wendover, Buckinghamshire; by bequest to Grace Elvina Hinds Duggan Curzon, marchioness of Curzon [1879-1958], Kedleston Hall, Derby, Derbyshire; (her sale, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, New York, 22 April 1932, no. 80); Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; gift 1943 to NGA.
Associated Names
- American Art Association
- Curzon, Grace Elvina, Marchioness of
- Dale, Chester
- Lebrun, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre
- Menars et de Marigny, Abel-François Poisson, marquis de
- Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de
- Rothschild, Alfred Charles de
- Sale, Paris
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